Daniel Dayan

At the CUC and Annenberg conference in Beijing, I had the chance to meet Daniel Dayan, who also gave a reprise of his work with Elihu katz on ‘media events’. We had an interesting exchange about a range of issues, from Zidane’s controversial head butt to what might have happened f if the athletes from North and South Korea had started a fight as they entered the stadium at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. This was a lovely meeting with good strong discussions and great sense of humour. It was a highlight of our trip to Beijing.

Genes and Juice

Article by TCS Daily writer on doping in sport references my Guardian article from last week.

Radio Five Live

Last night (7th Aug), I took part in a debate with Anita Anand on Radio Five Live. Other contributors included Dick Pound (WADA), Kris Akabusi (Athlete), Mike Smith (Coach) and my good friend Jim Parry (Philosopher.

Cafe Scientifique

Today I put together a wordpress site for the Liverpool chapter of Cafe-Sci, which is co-organised by Rob Black and Barry Drust. Hopefully, it will help to raise the profile of these great spaces for public engagement with science. I have given 2 cafe-sci talks, one in Norwich and another in Lancaster.

ahem…

Miah, A. (2005). “Genetics, Cyberspace and Bioethics: Why Not a Public Engagement with Ethics?” Public Understanding of Science 14(4): 409-421.

FACT in Flickr

I

‘ve set-up a new flickr group for visitors of FACT in Liverpool.Maybe there should be a ‘celebrity spotting’ section (not that this specific photograph would count).

Media and Politics

Call for Papers for Media and Politics strand
57th Political Studies Association Annual Conference
11 -13 April 2007
University of Bath

Papers are invited for the Media and Politics Group strand at the Political Studies Association Annual 2007 Conference. Papers on any aspect of the relationship between media and politics are welcome. All papers are subject to peer-review.

Paper proposals should include institutional affiliation, a title and an abstract of not more than 200 words, and should be emailed to Media and Politics Group co-convenor Dr Michael Higgins (michael.t.higgins@sunderland.ac.uk). Please mention the Political Studies Association in your email heading. The deadline for submissions to the Media and Politics strand is Friday 15th September, 2006.

And second.

The University of Sunderland’s Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies is to host the annual conference of the PSA’s Media and Politics Group on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th November 2006. More information, including prices and booking details, are available at the conference blog

The accepted papers are as follows:

Keynote speakers:

Justin Lewis, Cardiff University
Chris Mullin, MP
John Street, University of East Anglia
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University

Emma Briant, University of Glasgow
British Information Operations within the Context of Anglo-American Defence Relations.

Valentina Cardo, University of East Anglia
Voting In or Voting Out? In the case of Big Brother, You Decide! Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University
Are You Tony Blair in Disguise? An Examination of David Cameron’s Appeal to the ‘Youth Vote’

John Downey and Dominic Wring, Loughborough University
Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: National News and ‘Impartiality’.

Philip Drake, Andy Ruddock and Michael Higgins (Stirling, LJM and Sunderland)
Framing Cameron: The Cultural Politics of Political Celebrity.

Julie Firmstone, University of Leeds
What Influences Newspaper Agendas on Europe?

Chris Hanretty, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Politician Watching: The Measurement of Political Pluralism in French and Italian Television.

Anita Howarth, London School of Economics/Kingston University
A Critical Review of the Literature on Media-Public Policy Interface of Media-Policy Interface.

Yasmin Ibrahim, University of Brighton
Foreign Media as a Contaminant in Singapore Politics.

Steve Kennedy, University of Greenwich
Politics and Aesthetics: The Formalisation of Technological Discourse

Whain Kang, Rutgers University, USA
The Media and Foreign Policy from a Hegemony Perspective

Ana In=E9s Langer, University of Glasgow
The Politicisation of Blair’s Private Persona: Exceptional Through Norm=
ality

Neda Mokhtari, University of Tehran, Iran
Globalization and Soft Power: Case of CNN and Rulers Will

Okoth Fred Mudhai, Coventry University
The Changing Media-Politics Dynamics in Africa: Renaissance or Retrogression?

Chris Paterson, University of Ulster
Influencing Media in Times of Conflict: Government Intervention in the Iraq
War Media Narrative through Indirect and Direct Coercion

Magda Pieczka, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
Spinning the Scottish Parliament? Scottish Identity, Press and the Parliament

Nathan Roger, University of Swansea
From Terry Waite to Kenneth Bigley: How Terrorists Use New Media to Promote Their Cause.

Sean Tunney, University of Portsmouth
Press To Go?: Newspaper Ownership Policies in Labour’s Communications Act.

Katrin Voltmer, University of Leeds
Communication and Political Conflict: Exposure to Dissonant Views and Citizens’ Orientations Towards Political Opponents.

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Eghosa Aimufua, Cardiff University
Television News and the Vulnerable Citizen

Granville Williams University of Huddersfield
A Trojan Horse? The UK Position in the Revision Process of the Television Without Frontiers Directive

Convergence Culture

Call for Papers Special Issue on Convergence Culture
Vol 14 no 1. February 2008

Guest editors:
Mark Deuze, Indiana University (mdeuze@indiana.edu)
Henry Jenkins, MIT (henry3@mit.edu)

This call invites submissions for a special issue on Convergence Culture: the worldwide emergence of increasingly collaborative practices between media producers and consumers. Examples are television fan sites, game modifications (mods) and machinema, citizen journalism, interactive advertising and word-of-mouth marketing, transmedia storytelling (for example using games, movies, television, websites and comics), and so on. Convergence culture is both a top-down corporate-driven process and a bottom-up consumer-driven process. Media companies are learning how to accelerate the flow of media content across delivery channels to expand revenue opportunities, broaden markets and reinforce viewer commitments. Consumers are learning how to use these different media technologies to bring the flow of media more fully under their control and to interact with other users. We welcome submissions from a variety of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological backgrounds exploring the changing role and organization of work and productivity in the cultural and creative industries under the influence of convergence culture, as well as on creative processes initiated by or involving the people formerly known as the audience.

Specific topics and issues to be covered in this special issue for example are:

Case studies of media companies adopting convergence culture;
Case studies of specific fan communities and their relationships with media producers;
explorations of transmedia storytelling, viral marketing, and Alternate Reality;
Gaming as forms that tap the emerging relations between media producers and consumers;
Mapping of ethical, political, economical and cultural changes and challenges in an emerging convergence culture;
Quantitative and/or qualitative empirical work on the production, content, and/or consumption of media messages in the context of convergence culture;
Research focusing on convergence culture in the context of specific media industries (such as: computer and video games, advertising, journalism, television);
International comparative work on convergence culture in media production.

Submissions addressing the special issue theme are invited to the following sections: Debates which are short polemics (usually 1000-3000 words); Articles which are refereed case study research articles (7000-11,000 words); Feature Reports which offer a critical overview of current research by reviewing a conference, exhibition or festival (4000-8000 words).  Any inquiries concerning the Reviews section (which covers books, exhibitions, conferences, CD-ROMs, websites etc) should be directed to the regular reviews editor Jason Wilson (jason.wilson@luton.ac.uk). Submissions should be formatted using the Harvard reference method. Full details of  referencing style and guidelines can be found on the journal website at http://convergence.luton.ac.uk/.

Proposals for papers should be directed to the editors. The deadline for submission of research articles is February 1st, 2007. The special issue will be published (by SAGE) in February 2008.

Jason Wilson

Reviews Editor – Convergence

School of Media, Art and Design
University of Luton
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Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 3JU
United Kingdom

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NanoBio-RAISE

Last week, Dr Donald Bruce invited me to be part of an experts group in this EC 6th Framework research programme

Looks like a very interesting and important programme. It’ll be good to know more about it.

Ethics of Outer Space

hmmm, a new research venture I think….

The Division of Ethics of Science and Technology
Sector for Social and Human Sciences
UNESCO

Ethics of outer space

Ethics of outer space is one of the fields of activities of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, along with environmental ethics, science ethics and bioethics. The purpose of this activity is to raise awareness about the moral issues raised by activities in regard to outer space and space technologies, both inside the space community (where technical considerations tend to dominate and moral debate is often marginalized) and outside the space community (where the impact and relevance of present and future space activities in relation to human life are often discarded). A multidisciplinary effort is therefore required, and this is why UNESCO and its partners try to gather experts of different fields (experts in social sciences, natural sciences, law, ethics, astronauts, international organizations) and to have them involved in space ethics discussions and research.

One example of such effort was the symposium Legal and ethical framework for astronauts in space sojourns, that was held in UNESCO on 24th October 2004 and that was co-organized with the European Center for Space Law, the legal department of the European Space Agency, and the Institut du Droit de l’Espace et des Télécommunications of the University Paris 11. On this occasion, an interdisciplinary reflection was conducted on the presence of human beings in space, addressing such issues as the dignity of astronauts, their responsibility or the legal framework for space tourism. These debates are reflected in the Proceedings of this symposium that you can download at the following address: http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/file_download.php/be8c1e2788b31cde429ff39b5a53d9f7LegalEthicalFramework.pdf.

Building on the success of this conference, UNESCO and its partners are organizing another conference following the same model entitled Legal and ethical framework for space exploration. It will be held in UNESCO headquarters on 26-27 October 2006, and will gather ethicists, lawyers, social scientists, space practitioners, astronauts to discuss the cultural impact of space exploration, its economic background, modes of international collaboration or benefit sharing. You will find more information about this conference at the following address: http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9196_DO=DO_TOPIC_SECTION=201.html <http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9196&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> .

Find more about ethics of outer space at:
http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6195_DO=DO_TOPIC_SECTION=201.html <http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6195&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> .

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Division d’éthique des sciences et des technologies
Secteur des Sciences Sociales et Humaine
UNESCO

Ethique de l’espace

L’éthique de l’espace extra atmosphérique est un des champs d’activité de la Division d’éthique des sciences et des technologies, à côté de la bioéthique, de l’éthique de l’environnement et de l’éthique des sciences. Le but de cette activité est la sensibilisation aux problèmes éthiques soulevés par les activités et les technologies spatiales, que ce soit au sein de la communauté spatiale (où les considérations techniques tendent à dominer et où le débat moral a rarement lieu) ou en dehors (où l’impact et l’importance des activités spatiales présentes et futures pour la vie humaine sont souvent méconnues). Une approche multidisciplinaire est requise à cette fin, et c’est pourquoi l’UNESCO s’efforce d’impliquer des experts d’horizons différents (spécialistes des sciences sociales, des sciences naturelles, juristes, philosophes, astronautes, organisations internationales) dans les questions d’éthique de l’espace extra-atmosphérique.

Un exemple de cette approche s’est trouvé dans le symposium Cadre éthique et légal pour les astronautes lors des séjours spatiaux, qui s’est tenu à l’UNESCO le 24 octobre 2004 et était co-organisé avec le Centre Européen pour le Droit Spatial (ECSL), le département juridique de l’ESA, et l’Institut du Droit de l’Espace et des Télécommunications (IDEST) de l’Université de Paris XI. A cette occasion, une réflexion interdisciplinaire a été conduite sur la présence des êtres humains dans l’espace, traitant de problèmes tels que la dignité des astronautes, leurs responsabilités ou le cadre légal du tourisme spatial. Ces débats sont reflétés dans les actes de ce symposium, que vous pouvez télécharger à l’adresse Internet suivante :
http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/file_download.php/be8c1e2788b31cde429ff39b5a53d9f7LegalEthicalFramework.pdf.

Forts du succès de cette conférence, l’UNESCO et ses partenaires organisent une deuxième conférence sur le même modèle, intitulée cadre éthique et légal pour l’exploration spatiale. Elle se tiendra à l’UNESCO à Paris le 26-27 Octobre 2006, et réunira des éthiciens, des spécialistes des sciences sociales, des praticiens de l’espace et des astronautes pour discuter l’impact culturel de l’exploration spatiale, son contexte économique, les modes de collaboration internationale ou le partage des bénéfices. Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur cette conférence à l’adresse suivante: http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9196_DO=DO_TOPIC_SECTION=201.html <http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9196&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> .

Plus d’information sur l’éthique de l’espace à :
http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6195_DO=DO_TOPIC_SECTION=201.html <http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6195&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> .

Bioteknica Laboratory Remix

In 2003, I was on a panel with Jennifer and Shawn at the Glasgow School of Art….

BIOTEKNICA LABORATORY REMIX:
with Teratological Prototypes in Collaboration with Tissue Culture & Art Project
Shawn Bailey | Jennifer Willet | Oron Catts | Ionat Zurr

Aug 7 – 13 2006
ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge
& the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006)

http://www.bioteknica.org <http://www.bioteknica.org>
http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/ <http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/>
http://www.01sj.org/

BIOTEKNICA LABORATORY REMIX (with Teratological Prototypes in collaboration with TC&A) is a complex functional laboratory installation – built to sustain cellular life within the gallery environment.  Utilizing tissue culture and tissue engineering technologies, we have developed a series of small sculptures (Teratological Prototypes) that will be grown live in the gallery environment with an accompanying installation, laboratory protocol performances, and video. This work mobilizes the notion of remixing the laboratory environment as a critical turn in creating an interface between non-specialists – and ‘real’ and mediated representations of the laboratory.

Through a critical participatory methodology BIOTEKNICA LABORATORY REMIX both embraces and critiques evolving biotechnologies, considering the contradictions and deep underlying complexities that these technologies offer the present and future of humanity.

We wish to thank our supporters: SymbioticA, School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia, The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, HEXAGRAM, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Programme Québec Multimédia Jeunesse, The Canada Council for The Arts, Concordia Part-Time Faculty Union, The Banff Centre for the Arts, and Articule Artist Run Centre.

For more information please contact Jennifer Willet:  jwillet@sympatico.ca

Kristi Giselsson

Well this is a little experiment. I met Kristi in Stanford during the Human Rights and Human Enhancement conference. She explained a little of her phd to me, which was interested in posthumanism. At the time, I recalled a paper from an author in Aus who I thought might interest her. Now, upon looking through my endnote file, I discover the article again and think of sending it. However, I cannot find her email address online anywhere, so I thought I’d post to wordpress with her name in the expectation that she will, at some point Google herself and find it. What name could we give this kind of activity? It’s a form of inverse emailing.

Anyway, Kristi, if you see this, here is the article and get in touch!

Bendle, M. F. (2002). “Teleportation, Cyborgs and the Posthuman Ideology.” Social Semiotics 12(1): 45-62.

Journal of Medical Humanities

Miah, A. (2006). “Doctor, Can You Fix My Broken Heart?” Journal of Medical Humanities 27(2): 127-129.
This article began after watching the wonderful film ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ directed by Michel Gondry. It was not the first time I have thought about the way film can convey ethical issues related to medical technologies. One of the other films that sticks in my mind is Extreme Measures. There are many more and this review essay is now being developed into a more substantive article for an edited volume by Sandra Shapsay entitled ‘Bioethics through Film’, which will be published with Johns Hopkins University Press.

Is sport winning the war on drugs? (The Guardian, 2 August, 2006)

Miah, A. (2006). Is Sport Winning the War on Drugs? No. The Guardian. London: p.7.

The press is in a bit of a frenzy this week over the doping issue. I arrived back in the UK to receive a bunch of calls from journalists wanting to interview. One of these was Duncan MacKay at The Guardian who asked me to write a response to the above question. The piece is published in today’s Guardian alongside the counter position written by Dr John Scott at UK Sport.

Mobile Media (2-4 July, 2007)

an international conference on social and cultural aspects of mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies

2-4 July 2007
The University of Sydney, Australia

Barely twenty-five years since their commercial introduction, mobile cellular phones are widely used around the world. Having become an important technology for voice and text communication in the daily lives of billions of people, mobiles are now recognised as central for contemporary transformations in cultural and social practices, and in new developments in computing, media, telecommunications, Internet, and entertainment.

Equipment manufacturers, cultural and content producers, and user groups and creative communities are focussing on the possibilities of mobile media – with mobiles and wireless technologies, platforms, services, applications, and cultural forms being designed, manufactured, and reconfigured as convergent media.

Various forms of mobile media have been imagined for sometime, and are now a reality: mobile Internet, new forms of mobile text, mobile music, mobile film and video, mobile games, mobile learning, mobile media for the workplace, videotelephony, and mobile television. This relatively short history of mobile telephony is concurrently marked by the shift of the role of users from consumers to active producers – and mobile media is being heralded as a new site for consumption, democratic expression,
individualism, citizenship, and creativity.

In this international conference, held at the University of Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2007, we aim to comprehensively analyse and debate mobile media – exploring its emerging structures, features, practices, value chains, producers and audiences, delving into its social, cultural, aesthetic and commercial implications, and debating its futures.

The conference will feature leading scholars including Genevieve Bell (Intel), Stuart Cunningham (Queensland University of Technology), Shin Dong Kim (Hallym University), Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Undine), Leslie Haddon (LSE), Angel Lin (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Dong Hoo Lee (Incheon University), Rich Ling (Telenor), Shin Mizukoshi (University of Tokyo), Raul Pertierra (Ateneo de Manila and University of Philippines), Misa Matsuda (Chuo University) and Judy Wajcman (Australian National University).

We also invite papers on all aspects of mobile media, including, but certainly not restricted to:

* what does it mean to talk about mobiles as media?
* how do we map and theorise the transformations underway with mobile platforms, applications, and networks?
* mobile art
* mobiles and photography
* emerging cultural and narrative forms for mobiles (such as mobile films and videos)
* intersections between mobiles and Internet technologies
* wireless technologies and cultures
* mobile television, radio, and other kinds of broadcasting
* video calling and communications
* sexuality, intimacy, and mobile media
* mobile media and national or regional cultures
* subcultures, minority cultures, majoritarian cultures, and mobile media
* how do gender, sexuality, disability, socio-economics, cultural and linguistic contexts inflect cultural practices
in the far-from-even-and-even terrain of mobiles?
* mobile media and political economy
* mobile gaming
* what are the implications of mobile media for our concepts of culture, communication, and media
* mobiles, community, and public sphere
* mobile media, place and space
* ramifications of mobile media for creative, cultural and media industries
* challenges of mobile media for policy, regulation, and legislation.

Abstracts of 300 words are due by 10 September 2006 (please send copy of abstract to both organizers).

Acceptance advised by 20 September 2006, with full papers due by 15 January 2007.

All papers will be subject to masked peer review and published in the conference proceedings.

For further information, contact: Gerard Goggin, Media & Communications, University of Sydney,  (gerard.goggin@arts.usyd.edu.au); Larissa Hjorth, Games programs, RMIT University (larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au).

Conference website (from August 2006): www.mobilemedia2007.net

Digital Feminisms: Gender and New Technologies

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Volume 32.2
Digital Feminisms:  Gender and New Technologies

The complexity of new technologies has altered the way we think about time, space and ourselves in the digital age. Whether it is business, media, entertainment, advocacy, art, education, social action, politics, paid and unpaid work, or a myriad of other sites of contention, the ability of new technology to converge with and transform past, present and future ways of interacting with the world in which we live has immense and wide-ranging implications.

Given this context, we are seeking contributions to a special issue of Atlantis focused on Gender and New Technologies. We invite submissions that contribute to an inquiry on how new technologies have informed gender’s self expression and histories; affected gender, race and culture; influenced the representation of gender; and changed the way in which gender issues
are viewed or pursued. In pursuit of a diverse and wide-ranging debate, the issue seeks contributions from a broad range of areas, including Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, New Media, Cultural, Film and Communications Studies, History, Visual Arts, Computer Science and any other area relevant to the discussion. Given the complexities of new technologies, we wish
to encourage submissions that think across geographical divides, histories and media, including (but not limited to) the Internet, digital arts, locative media, WiFi, aesthetic and narrative analysis, film, video, television, educational software/delivery, medical technologies, and visual and digital art.

Interdisciplinary approaches combining target areas are also welcomed.  Possible topics for this issue include, but are not limited to:
* New technologies, gender and self * Gender and digital art
* New technologies, gender and race * Gender and convergent technologies
* New technologies, gender and media * Gender and the digital body
* New technologies, gender and history * Gender and digital networking
* New technologies, gender and environmentalism * Gender and discourses
in computer science
* New technologies, gender and social action * Gender and digital identities
* Gender and issues of access to new technologies

All contributions should be accessible to an audience from many different backgrounds interested in participating in the creation and sharing of feminist knowledge. Atlantis articles are peer reviewed. They contribute to a publication that strives to meet the most significant academic and feminist expectations of our colleagues. Articles submitted for consideration must be no longer than 6000 words (including notes, references, appendices, etc.) and must be typed double-spaced. Please send submissions, in sextuplicate, addressed to Cecily Barrie at the Atlantis address below.

Information regarding the contributors’ guidelines may be found at the web site (www.msvu.ca/atlantis), or by contacting the Atlantis office.

Please note: When an article is accepted for publication in Atlantis, we ask that the contributor subscribe to the journal for one year. Like many other journals, our fiscal base is vulnerable. Subscribers to Atlantis create the possibility for the dissemination of feminist knowledge in the form of peer reviewed articles, community voices, curriculum reflections and book reviews. As contributors of peer reviewed articles, their subscriptions will assist in keeping the journal in print and available to the larger community of feminist thinkers and doers. In exchange, they will receive both the spring and fall editions plus an extra copy of the edition carrying their article.

GUEST EDITORS:      Sheila Petty and Barbara Crow
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  February 1, 2007

Institute for the Study of Women / Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax NS Canada B3M 2J6 / tel: 902-457-6319 fax: 902-443-1352

Genomics in Perspective

The National Library of Medicine recently announced a great resource of lectures which speak to this title. Details and links below:

A lecture series presented by the National Library of Medicine

Program: May 2, 2006 May 9, 2006 May 16, 2006 June 6, 2006 June 13, 2006 June 20, 2006 Abstracts Videos of the lecturesNLM is pleased to announce Genomics in Perspective, a lecture series that presents historical and social science perspectives on genomics to an audience of scientists, physicians, policy makers, and the general public.

Genomics can be a confusing issue to the public. For some, it promises a radical and abrupt transformation in medical practice; others suggest that the new genetics has not and will not revolutionize the way common diseases are identified or prevented. Some welcome genomics as ushering in a golden age of new and more effective treatments, better diagnostic interventions, and more powerful means of biological investigation through bioinformatics, genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, and determination of gene function. Others caution against over-optimism, and point to the importance of culture, society and history to an understanding of the complexity of interaction between biology, genes, and environment. The lectures in this series explore some of these issues from historical and social science perspectives. Together they seek to stimulate discussion of the social, historical, and cultural meanings and uses of genomics; to help to put genomics in perspective.

Each event will feature

• A lecture by a historian or social scientist
• A response by a physician or scientist
• A discussion period

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Program

Start time: All lectures will start at 4.00 pm.
Location: Lister Hill auditorium, Building 38A, NIH Campus (directions below).
Lecture: 45 minutes
Response: 5-10 minutes
Discussion: 30-45 minutes

May 2, 2006: Genes, Railroads and Regulation: Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
	Lecture: Professor Daniel Kevles, Yale University.
	Response: Claire T. Driscoll, M.S., Director, Technology Transfer Office, National Human Genome Research Institute.
	Lecture: Professor Dorothy Porter, University of California, San Francisco.
	Response: Brian Kimes, Ph.D., former Director, Office of Centers, Training and Resources (OCTR), National Cancer Institute.
	Lecture: Professor Rayna Rapp, New York University
	Response: Sharon F. Terry, M.A., President and C.E.O., Genetic Alliance, 4301 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 404, Washington, D.C.
	Lecture: Professor Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania.
	Response: Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., Deputy Director, National Human Genome Research Institute.
	Lecture: Professor Stephen Hilgartner, Cornell University.
	Response: Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D., Scientific Director, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute.
	Lecture: Professor Troy Duster, New York University.
	Response: Vivian Ota Wang, Ph.D., Program Director, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program, National Human Genome Research Institute, and Senior Advisor, Office of Behavioral & Social Sciences Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health.

The Lister Hill Center (Building 38A), part of the National Library of Medicine, is located near the intersection of Center and Medlars Drives on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Genomics in Perspective will take place in the Lister Hill Auditorium, on the first floor. The auditorium is also accessible via subway; Metro’s “Medical Center” station, on the Red Line, is a short walk from the building’s entrance. For directions, security information and other visitor information, please consult the Library’s Web site at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/visitor.html

Click below for the full program, and abstracts.
Program and abstracts (PDF)

The program is in PDF format. PDF documents require the use of the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, which can be downloaded from Adobe’s Web site at no charge.

For videos of the lectures click below:
http://collab.nlm.nih.gov/webcastsandvideos/genomics/genomics.html

These videos are encoded for optimal viewing with dial up connections supporting at least 56 kbps or LAN connections supporting at least 150 kbps. Real Player is required to view the videos. You can download a free Real Player here.

Beijing Blues

Beijing 4th Olympic Cultural Festival Closing Ceremony

Originally uploaded by andymiah.

Wow, a whole month without posting; I was beginning to develop withdrawal systems. So, I went from Lausanne direct to Beijing and China doesn’t allow access to some blogging tools, including wordpress and blogspot. It reminded me how important it is to ftp my blog, but I still haven’t worked out how to make that step.

There are too many stories to tell about Beijing, I don’t really know where to begin. My flickr stream is packed with new content and still more to come, including inside views of the Bird’s nest Olympic stadium.

This photograph is from the Beijing 4th Olympic Cultural Festival Closing Ceremony. More about that and other findings later.